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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hough.

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Examples

  • MacLaren died, and about the same time his cattle were houghed, and his live stock destroyed in a barbarous manner.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • There lies the trophy of my sword, that good grey gelding, whom I heartily wish upon his legs again, conditioning his master lay there houghed in his place.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots.

    1 Chronicles 18. 1999

  • And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

    Joshua 11. 1999

  • And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.

    2 Samuel 8. 1999

  • -- Ed. [201] The marginal reading of our Bible for "they digged down a wall," is "they houghed oxen."

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and he houghed all the chariot horses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • There is another annoyance -- the risk of valuable cattle being houghed or otherwise mutilated; a risk calling for incessant watchfulness.

    Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

  • In the first, because of the large sums obliged to be levied off them, as compensation to those whose cattle were maliciously houghed, or whose houses were burned; and in the latter, because of the great boon (the grant to improve the river) bestowed on Ireland by that government of which Lord Normanby was a prominent member.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

  • And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and only reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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